Wedding Tea by Sheila Horgan

Author:Sheila Horgan [Horgan, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sheila Horgan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Somewhere around three this morning, I was wide-awake and thinking about it.

Suzi once told me A.J. had a really bad temper when they were younger. She made it clear the A.J. she knew then and the one I know now were two different guys.

I basically passed it off as him being aggressive when he was young and maturing his way out of it.

My mom told me when she was younger she was really negative. One day, someone took her aside and pointed out she was the most negative person they had ever encountered. That day, my mom changed it. She became the most positive person I’ve ever met. My mom could find the good in anything. She taught us how to do that.

Or at least she taught me.

Being positive is a choice, just like anything else.

Mom proved to me over and over again that it doesn’t take any more effort to be positive than it does to be negative, and it’s a lot more fun.

If Teagan and I were having the fight A.J. and Suzi were having, I would be confident we’d work it out. Usually within a day. I think our biggest blowout took us a couple of days.

But I’m not sure A.J. and Suzi are going to get past this.

What about the wedding?

What about her living here?

I had to get up and blow my nose, and it woke A.J. up.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m just worried about you and Suzi.”

“You don’t need to worry about that.” He sounded so cold.

“Please don’t get mad at me.”

He instantly relaxed. I could feel it next to me. Like he’d turned off a switch. “I’m sorry. I’m not mad at you. I’m mad at her. How could she do it? Put you in danger. Evelyn? She knows that bastard … ”

“A.J., we don’t know she had anything to do with it.”

“How else would he know? And I know my sister. She wouldn’t have reacted so strongly if she didn’t feel guilty. If she hadn’t done it, she would have told me to go jump off a building. Again.”

“What?”

“When I was about five or six, I got really angry one day. I climbed up onto the garage and jumped off.”

“Why would you do that?”

“Gran talked to a counselor, and the counselor was convinced I was trying to kill myself.”

I was so shocked I couldn’t breathe.

“At six?”

“I don’t believe I was. It’s just what the counselor said. I think I was trying to fly away. I was heavy into superheroes then. I thought I could fly away and build my own superworld and not have to deal with my parents or Suzi. It was rough back then.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Not your fault.”

“I’m still sorry.”

We were quiet for a bit, A.J. lost in his memories and me trying to figure out what I could say that wouldn’t make things worse. With any luck, if I got it right, I would be able to actually make things better.

I figured I’d give it a shot, and if things started to go badly, I’d just shut up and talk to Teagan tomorrow.

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